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All Answers: On the Phenomenal Success of a Brazilian Pentecostal Charismatic Church in South Africa

Ilana van Wyk
In: Pentecostalism in Africa: Presence and Impact of Pneumatic Christianity in Postcolonial Societies
Lindhardt Lindhardt (ed.)
Leiden: Brill (2015), pp. 136-162
"The UCKG’s phenomenal success in post-apartheid South Africa had been a source of much speculation. Scholars generally attributed the church’s growth to new political and economic processes while the South African media and the church’s critics suspected that the UCKG’s attraction was caref ... more
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Mechachal: A Preliminary Assessment of Online Debates in Ethiopia. Report One

Iginio Gagliardone et al.
University of Oxford, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) (2015), 35 pp.
"Mechachal is a collaborative project developed by the University of Oxford and Addis Ababa University to understand the nature and potential of online debates in Ethiopia. Mechachal can be translated from Amharic as “tolerance”, or as one’s awareness of their own social sphere and willingness ... more
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Customary Law and Media Regulation in Conflict and Post-Conflict States

Nicole Stremlau
In: Routledge Handbook of Media Law
Monroe E. Price, Stefaan Verhulst, Libby Morgan (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2015), pp. 237-252
"In the process of drafting new media laws for states emerging from violent confl ict, or transitioning towards more democratic governments, the role of customary law is often overlooked. While “best practices” or international standards draw on widely accepted norms of international human right ... more
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Trauma and Public Memory

Jane Goodall, Christopher Lee (eds.)
Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xii, 231 pp.
"This collection of essays and interviews offers perspectives on traumatic experience from the social and public side of the equation. Like other books in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, it is concerned with redressing the balance of public memory through a focus on what has been negle ... more
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Re-Conceptualizing the Analysis of Media Development and Trajectories hereof in Post-Colonial Societies

Ylva Rodny-Gumede
Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 2 (2015), pp. 131-146
"Using South Africa as a case study, this article presents a new argument for an adaptation of the Comparative Media Systems Model by Hallin and Mancini. The article proposes that factors of race, class and gender and intersections hereof as well as nation-building be added to the model to better su ... more
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Beyond Tokenism: The Need to License Community Radio Stations in Zimbabwe

London: Amnesty International (2015), 39 pp.
"This report is a qualitative study focussing on Zimbabwe’s failure and/or refusal to license community radio stations since 2001, despite existing legal frameworks providing for such. It looks at the Constitution of Zimbabwe and the Broadcasting Services Act, the two key pieces of legislation whi ... more
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Empowering HIV Positive Youths for Treatment Adherence Through Entertainment-Education

Eliza M. Govender, Sertanya Reddy
In: Entertainment-Education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa
Chima E. Onuekwe (ed.)
Victoria, BC: Friesen Press (2015), pp. 243-261
"Through an action media methodology, various participatory, grassroots, and traditional media methods, such as role plays, movie screenings, and drawing, were used with eight HIV-positive children to empower them to collectively respond to better treatment adherence. The paper demonstrates how, thr ... more
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The BRICS Journalist: Profession and Practice in the Age of Digital Media

Svetlana Pasti, Jyotika Ramaprasad (eds.)
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 3 (2015), pp. 1-138
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Mechachal: Online Debates and Elections in Ethiopia. From Hate Speech to Engagement in Social Media

Iginio Gagliardone et al.
University of Oxford, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) (2015), 103 pp.
"We analyzed more than 13,000 statements during the project. This report primarily builds on the statements that were collected between 24 February and 24 June 2015, three months before and one month after the parliamentary elections that took place in Ethiopia on 24 May 2015. FINDING 1: Hate and d ... more
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African Media Barometer: Namibia 2018

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2015), 66 pp.
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Digital Technologies and the Evolving African Newsroom: Towards an African Digital Journalism Epistemology

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara (ed.)
London: Routledge (2015), xi, 120 pp.
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The Political Role of the Media in the Democratisation of Malawi: The Case of the 'Weekend Nation' from 2002 to 2012

Anthony Mavuto Gunde
Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University, Doctoral Thesis (2015), xv, 239 pp.
"This study investigated the political role of the Weekend Nation newspaper in the democratisation of Malawi between 2002 and 2012 within the context of its foundational and ownership structures by a politician. Bearing in mind that the newspaper was founded by a politician belonging to the first de ... more
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10 Things You Need to Know About Radio in South Africa. Wits Radio Conference 2015

Kuper Research (2015), 46 slides
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Arabische Medien
Deep Insights

Carola Richter, Asiem El Difraoui (eds.)
Konstanz; München: UVK (2015), 344 pp.
"Im Fokus des ersten Teils stehen transnationale Phänomene wie die Bedeutung des Satellitenfernsehens und der Sozialen Medien sowie die Rolle von Minderheiten, Gender und Islamisten in den Medien. Diese Beiträge geben den aktuellen Stand der Forschung wieder und reflektieren diesen. Im zweiten Tei ... more
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Rapid Assessment on the Use of Radio in Extension and Advisory Services in Mozambique

Rex Chapota
USAID (2015), 33 pp.
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From Pictures to Policy: How Does Humanitarian Reporting Have an Influence?

Suzanne Franks
In: Humanitarianism, Communications and Change. Global Crises and the Media
Simon Cottle, Glenda. Cooper (eds.)
Peter Lang (2015), pp. 153-166
"In contrast to the contemporary media perception the government aid provided to Ethiopia was pretty much existing money that was reconfigured and, despite appearances, there was no ‘new money’. The UK Government rejected any longer term ongoing engagement and was just concerned with short-term ... more
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Publishing for Peanuts: Innovation and the Journalism Start-Up

J. J. Robinson, Kristen Grennan, Anya Schiffrin
Columbia University, School of International and Political Affairs; Open Society Foundation (2015), 200 pp.
"Our remit was to look for innovative media outlets that are producing high-quality news, that are technologically innovative and that might actually survive financially. Accordingly, we spent three months interviewing media innovators around the world and reading what others have written on the sub ... more
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Africa Online: Media Use in Sub-Saharan Africa. Findings from the Media Survey - Côte D’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2015), 29 slides
"Internet users in Africa tend to be young, educated and in urban areas. The probability of using the internet is also higher for male, and we also find that internet usage patterns differ across gender and location. Mobile phones are the major devices used to go online both at home and elsewhere by ... more
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Xenophobie und Medien in Südafrika: Eine Analyse über die Berichterstattung im April und Mai 2015

Verena Löffler
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2015), 12 pp.
"Die südafrikanischen Tageszeitungen Daily Sun, Sowetan, The Citizen und The Star repräsentieren die vier dominierenden Medienverlage in Südafrika und berichteten im April und Mai 2015 alle über Fremdenfeindlichkeit und Migration. Die meisten Artikel in der Stichprobe stammten von der Zeitung St ... more
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Participatory Photography for Peace: Using Images to Open Up Dialogue After Violence

Valentina Baú
Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, volume 10, issue 3 (2015), pp. 74-88
"This article begins with a literature review of Participatory Photography (PP) that highlights how this tool has been mostly implemented for action research, advocacy, and public health purposes. It shows how scholars have only quite recently begun to recognise its ability to generate change among ... more